Firewire is probably fine for most audio applications.
Digital video's a whole other deal, though!
Oh, and some applications are going to be more sensitive to your disk
speed than others as some use the disk more than others...
Dallas
On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 11:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been looking into this myself... what do you all think about
> firewire
> for audio? I heard at first that SCSI was still superior, but more and
> more
> companies are supporting firewire drives (like Glyph for Digidesign...)
> What
> gives? And whats the deal with USB 2.0?
> Donovan
> substrata
>
> In a message dated 12/12/01 9:47:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << Already got a fast system? You're going to want a fast drive.
> Programs
>
> like Cubase rely heavily on hard drive access, so if this is going to
> be an
>
> audio workhorse then you'll notice the difference on a fast drive. For
> my
>
> machine, I got a 10,000 rpm (9 gig) SCSI drive and a 5,400 (60 gig) IDE
>
> drive. The difference in speed is really obvious, but if you a looking
> for
>
> some sort of speed/size/cost trade-off that may be a good way to go -
> keep
>
> one small fast drive for programs and a big one for storage.
>
>
> trust >>
>
>
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